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norm

UK/nɔːm/ US/noɹm/ fairly common

noun

1.

a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

  • “the current middle-class norm of two children per family”
2.

a statistic describing the location of a distribution

  • “it set the norm for American homes”
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Origin

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).

Phrases

  • absolute norm
  • age norm
  • Banach norm
  • basic norm
  • Bombieri norm
  • C*-cross norm
  • Chebyshev norm
  • complex norm

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